Soejatmi Dransfield

Soejatmi Dransfield (born 1939) is an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and currently honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.[1][2][3][4]

Soejatmi Dransfield
Born
Indonesia
CitizenshipBritish
Known forBotany
Taxonomy
SpouseJohn Dransfield
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)S.Dransf.

Early life

Soejatmi Soenarko was born in Nganjuk, Indonesia in 1939.[2]

Education

Dransfield got her first degree in Plant Taxonomy from the Academy of Agriculture, Ciawi, Bogor in Indonesia. In 1975, she got her PhD in biology from the University of Reading in the UK, her thesis entitled Revision of Cymbopogon (Gramineae).[2]

Career

Dransfield began her career as a staff member of Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor in Indonesia. After completing her PhD, she went back to working at Bogor and continued working on bamboos.[1] She moved to the UK in 1978 to continue her research on bamboo taxonomy including the generic delimitation of the Old World tropical bamboos. She writes on the account of bamboos from Malaysia, Thailand and Madagascar.[2][4]

Her appointment as an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Garden was a recognition of her work on the bamboos.[5] Together with her husband John Dransfield, she traveled to South East Asia and Madagascar. They presented their research on bamboos at the Plant Resources of South East Asia meeting in Jakarta.[5]

Dransfield's efforts resulted in the identification and description of forty two erect bamboo species. In 1993 and 1994, Dransfield collected specimens of Schizostachyum and Dinochloa from Luzon in Philippines which she used to study, revise and publish articles. This was a three-year project on bamboos “Field guide for the identification of erect bamboos grown in the Philippines [6] and helped collect materials for taxonomy and updated nomenclature.[3]

At the Kew Herbarium, her primary research is on the paleotropical bamboos.[1] Along with a team of other botanists, Dransfield has worked to identify sixty species of bamboos by carefully studying the bamboo trunks, leaves, and shoots through a software program written by French professor Regine Vignes Lebbe.[4] The bamboo genus Soejatmia from Malaya and Thailand, has been named after her.[7][8]

She married Dr John Dransfield in Malaysia (1977).[9]

Selected publications
  • A New Species and a New Combination of Cyrtochloa[10]
  • Sirochloa, a New Bamboo Genus from Madagascar (Poaceae-Bambusoideae)[11]
  • Cyrtochloa, a New Genus of Bamboo (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from the Philippines[12]
  • Valiha and Cathariostachys, Two New Bamboo Genera (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from Madagascar[13]
  • Notes on Bambusa diffusa (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from Luzon, Philippines [14]

Books
  • The Bamboos of Sabah[15]
  • Plant Resources of South-East Asia: Bamboos. no 7

References
  1. "Dr Soejatmi Dransfield | Kew". www.kew.org. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. Elevitch, Craig R. (2004). The Overstory Book: Cultivating Connections with Trees. PAR. ISBN 9780970254436.
  3. "Bamboo research in the Philippines". Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  4. "Bamboo Eco-Reserve Beckons". Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  5. "The Journal of the Kew Guild - Events of 1989". Issuu. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  6. Rojo, J.; Roxas, C.; Brinas, C.; Pitargue, F. Jr (Forest Products Research and Development Inst (1999). "Field guide to the identification of erect bamboos grown in the Philippines". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. Wong, K. M. (1993). "Four New Genera of Bamboos (Gramineae: Bambusoideae) from Malesia". Kew Bulletin. 48 (3): 517–532. doi:10.2307/4118719. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 4118719.
  8. "Soejatmia K.M.Wong | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  9. Sands, Martin (1978). "News of Kewites at home and abroad in 1977". The Journal of the Kew Guild. 10: 607–608 – via ISSUU.
  10. Dransfield, Soejatmi (2003). "A New Species and a New Combination of Cyrtochloa (Poaceae-Bambusoideae) from the Philippines". Kew Bulletin. 58 (4): 981–985. doi:10.2307/4111213. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 4111213.
  11. Dransfield, Soejatmi (2002). "Sirochloa, a New Bamboo Genus from Madagascar (Poaceae-Bambusoideae)". Kew Bulletin. 57 (4): 963–970. doi:10.2307/4115726. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 4115726.
  12. Dransfield, Soejatmi (1998). "Cyrtochloa, a New Genus of Bamboo (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from the Philippines". Kew Bulletin. 53 (4): 857–873. doi:10.2307/4118873. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 4118873.
  13. Dransfield, Soejatmi (1998). "Valiha and Cathariostachys, Two New Bamboo Genera (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from Madagascar". Kew Bulletin. 53 (2): 375–397. doi:10.2307/4114503. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 4114503.
  14. Dransfield, Soejatmi (1998). "Notes on Bambusa diffusa (Gramineae-Bambusoideae) from Luzon, Philippines". Kew Bulletin. 53 (4): 875–881. doi:10.2307/4118874. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 4118874.
  15. Dransfield, Soejatmi (1 January 1992). The Bamboos of Sabah. Forestry Department. ISBN 9789839554038.
  16. International Plant Names Index.  S.Dransf.
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